Nikola Tesla

By MattHealy

  • Nikola Tesla Born

    Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, in present-day Croatia, on July 10, 1856.

  • Tesla moves to the United States

    Tesla begins his work in Edison Machine Works. This is where many electrical motors were developed and sold.

  • Nikola forms the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing

    Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing was a company created by Tesla himself. Tesla's ideas for new types of motors and electrical transmission were developed here.

  • Tesla invented the first usable Alternating Current motor.

    This is one of Tesla's greatest inventions. The motor used alternating current which was not widely known about at the time.

  • Tesla Discovers Wireless Power

    This was the start of Tesla's lifelong obsession:the wireless transmission of energy.

  • Tesla goes to the Chicago Worlds Fair

    Demonstration of alternating current generators at the Chicago World’s Fair, lighting thousands of incandescent light bulbs

  • The first Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant opened.

    Tesla designed it to harness the energy of the Falls and convert it to electricity

  • Demonstration of Tesla’s remote controlled boat in New York

    This was the first remote control device. Created by Tesla

  • Construction starts on Wardenclyffe Tower

    Tesla’s laboratory facility is completed. This tower was meant to wirelessy transmit messages

  • Wardenclyffe Tower Destroyed

    The tower was destroyed after Tesla was sued so he could pay off debt.

  • Tesla awarded John Scott Medal

    The City of Philadelphia awarded Nikola Tesla with the John Scott Medal for the invention of the rotating magnetic field and induction motor.

  • Nikola Tesla Dies

    Nikola Tesla Dies at age 86 in a hotel room in New York